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by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910)

Aftnen er stille
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Our translations:  FRE
Aftnen er stille,
timerne trille
lydløse ned i det evige væld. 
Kun mine tanker
lyttende vanker, -
vil hun ej komme i kvæld,
- ej komme i kvæld? 

Vinteren drømmer,
stjernerne svømmer
gennem dens florlette syner og ler,
nævnende sommer,
elskov og blommer, -
tør hun ej møde mig mer,
- ej møde mig mer? 

Havet, med panden
is-lagt mod stranden,
sukker i længsel og rejsesyg ro. 
Skibe for anker,
sejlfyldte tanker, -
o, vi må findes, vi to,
- må findes, vi to! 

Sneen har dalet,
tumlet og malet
eventyr-let i den skog-dunkle hej. 
Dyrene lister,
slagskygger frister:
var det dit fodtrin, o nej,
- dit fodtrin, o nej! 

Modet du savner,
rimfrosten favner
længselens grene, fortryllet du står. 
Men jeg tør sprænge
dækket og trænge
ind, hvor i drømme du går,
- i drømme du går.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Sjöberg 

C. Sjöberg sets stanzas 1-2

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Digte og sange, Femte O P L A G, Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, Kristiania og København, 1914.


Text Authorship:

  • by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), "Stævnemødet", first published 1866 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Aftnen er stille, timerne trille", op. 3 (Fem Sange) no. 1, published 1874 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Aftnen er stille", op. 67, Heft 3 no. 14, published 1905-06 [ men's chorus ], Christiania : Carl Warmuth [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carl Leopold Sjöberg (1861 - 1900), "Aftnen er stille", stanzas 1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Rendez-vous", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 35
Word count: 130

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